archy and mehitabelwere a cockroach and a catarchy had the soulof a vers libre poetand laboriously composedby jumping on the keysof don marquis s typewriter at nightwhile mehitabel supposedlyhad the soul of Cleopatra

his output was publishedin the new york evening sunstarting in 1916and later in the tribuneat first as Fillerwhen marquis couldn t produce his column

Reincarnation both archy and mehitabel had human souls he a vers libre poet and she cleopatra and many others freddy the rat was a poet before and then there was the suicide club of bugs whose previous human selves had taken their own lives